Biography

American homicide; housewife who shot her husband and twin sons to death and wounded her six-year-old daughter, then placing the gun in her mouth and committed suicide.

Leslie and her husband, Robert, had a stormy marriage; he was mean and brutal, and they were always fighting. She had been a fairly wild teenager when she met Robert and married him after getting pregnant.

Leslie worked as an engineer and had been in the Army. She also had worked for General Dynamics for 11 years, off and on. Ready to go back to work when she got pregnant with the twins, she had had abortions before, and after her last delivery, had a tubal ligation done. Leslie was under a lot of pressure at her job at Aero-jet and was stressed and depressed when she broke down into violence.